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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 26, 2011 | Christie's | London | 20th Century British & Irish Art | 113 | $****** - ****** | Still Life | |||
Jun 18, 1997 | Sotheby's | London | Modern British & Irish Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 117 | $****** - ****** | Still life |
paintings
115 x 153 cm (45.28 x 60.24 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'W. SCOTT 51' (lower left)
Commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain for inclusion in the 1951 exhibition. Seymour H. Knox Foundation, Buffalo, by whom purchased from the artist at the 1955 MoMA exhibition. Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. Seymour H. Knox Foundation, Buffalo. Property from a private American collection
Sotheby's, London, 18 June 1997, lot 117. with Jonathan Clark Fine Art, London.
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Arts Council Gallery, Festival of Britain Exhibition: 60 Paintings for '51, 1951, no. 45: this exhibition travelled to the provinces. New York, Museum of Modern Art, The New Decade - 22 European Painters and Sculptors, May - August 1955, not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, September - October 1955; Los Angeles, County Museum, November 1955 - January 1956; San Francisco, Museum of Art, February - March 1956. Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Contemporary Art - Acquisitions 1954-1957, May - June 1957, no. 22. London, Tate Gallery, William Scott: Paintings, Drawings and Gouaches 1938-71, April - May 1972, no. 26. Buffalo, Anderson Gallery, William Scott Memorial Exhibition, September - October 1992, no. 1. London, Jonathan Clark Fine Art, St Ives and British Modernism, October - November 1998, no. 22. Banbridge, The F.E. McWilliam Gallery and Studio, William Scott in Ireland. Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches and Lithographs 1938-1979, March - September 2009, no. 9. Bangor, Ava Gallery, Clandeboye Estate, Ulster Artists, April 2010. Bangor, Ava Gallery, Clandeboye Estate, Ulster Artists, February - March 2011.
Exhibition catalogue, Festival of Britain Exhibition: 60 Paintings for '51, London, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1951, no. 45, pl. 36. A. Clutton-Brock, 'Festival Paintings', The Times, 22 June 1951. M.H. Middleton, 'Art', The Spectator, 3 August 1951. Exhibition catalogue, The New Decade - 22 European Painters and Sculptors, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1955, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Art - Acquisitions 1954-1957, Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, 1957, no. 22, illustrated. R. Alley, William Scott, London, 1963, illustrated, not numbered. A. Bowness, William Scott: Paintings, London, 1964, pp. 8, 33, no. 22, illustrated. J. Russell, 'William Scott. Developments in Style - III', The London Magazine, vol. 1, no. 3, June 1961, illustrated. A. Lewis, 'British Avant Garde Paintings, 1945-1956 Part I', Artscribe, March 1982, no. 34, pp. 26-27, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, William Scott: Paintings, Drawings and Gouaches 1938-71, London, Tate Gallery, 1972, p. 43, no. 26, illustrated. N. Lynton, William Scott, London, 2004, pp. 85-87, 116, 136, pl. 43. Exhibition catalogue, William Scott in Ireland. Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches and Lithographs 1938-1979, Banbridge, The F.E. McWilliam Gallery and Studio, 2009, no. 9, illustrated.
